a meal or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance 户外烧烤 ■a metal appliance used for the preparation of food at a barbecue, or a brick fireplace containing such an appliance (烧烤用)烤架,烤炉 ■[mass noun](N. Amer.)food cooked in such a way (北美)烤制食品
(barbecues, barbecued, barbecuing)
[with obj.]cook (meat, fish, or other food) on a barbecue 烤(肉、鱼等食物)
语源
mid 17th cent.: from Spanish barbacoa, perhaps from Arawak barbacoa 'wooden frame posts'. The original sense was 'wooden framework for sleeping on, or for storing meat or fish to be dried'